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Port-au-Prince: Crime Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s SoulHaiti has never been an easy place to live. From colonialism to liberation by the ex-slave revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture at the...
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When Characters Fake Their Own DeathsPseudocide, or faking one’s own death, offers a tantalizing escape from reality, and the possibility of starting fresh. There’s something...
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Native American Literature: Tribes and TribulationsFor Redemption , the first book of my new Native American suspense thriller series, I feature the Taos Pueblo Reservation, located in northern...
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A Haunting in Venice is the Best of Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot Adaptations, and an Engaging Film On Its OwnI was impressed by A Haunting in Venice as much as I was relieved by it. I had always found it both delightful and intriguing that, of all...
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Jason Voorhees: Neurodivergent Icon?I was working the day that it happened, preparing meals. Jason should’ve been watched every minute! He was … he wasn’t a very good swimmer....
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The Freudian Gothic Fiction of Ira LevinOn the eve of Hallowe’en, 1980, Dick Cavett’s television guests included Stephen King, George Romero, and Peter Straub. Watching it now, King is...
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Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place, and the Birth of the Modern Serial Killer NovelPublished in 1947, Dorothy Hughes’ noir novel In a Lonely Place is a masterpiece of crime fiction whose influence has extended to both books...
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‘A Face in the Crowd’ Forecast Our Future – If We’d Only Been Paying AttentionIt’s a cliché to cite some decades-old book, movie or TV show and say, “This is as relevant today as it was back then.” That said, one 1957...
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The Dark Humor of Millennial Crime CapersThe millennial is a strange beast. Though “millennial” is factually the word to describe someone born between 1981 and 1996, hearing it conjures...
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5 International Action Thrillers from Afghanistan to ShanghaiI wrote my newly released Lily Wong novel, The Ninja’s Oath , during the pandemic when my newborn granddaughter was in lockdown in...
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When is a Character’s Dishonesty Justified?Deception is elemental to a good mystery. The author misleads the reader constantly, from every angle. The characters mislead each other. Or...
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(Un)Safe Harbor: Thrillers Set in Remote Island LocationsI have spent a lot of summer weekends on an island in Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay. It’s a beautiful, wild, windswept place that can, as Gull Island...
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An Appreciation of Gardening DetectivesGardening detectives, both professional and amateur, abound in crime fiction and they appeared early on. Wilkie Collins introduced the first...
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Cozy Mysteries with Furry SidekicksI have a confession to make. I have a mad crush on my neighbor. Whenever I see him sprinting in my direction, my heart swells and I can’t hold...
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7 Crime Novels Set in Sin CityLike many of my books, it started with a seed of an idea: a businessman wakes up in a hotel room that isn’t his to find a dead woman in the...
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Writing a Domestic Survival ThrillerI’ve always been obsessed with survival stories—people braving the elements, or out-scheming malevolent captors or striving to survive the end of...
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On Crime and Its DiscontentsThe first crime was the most defining moment in the history of the human. It was not Cain’s murder. That was defining too. But the first crime...
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When True Crime Meets Police BrutalityIn 2016, journalist Amelia McDonell-Parry and I were asked to look into the death of Freddie Gray for the Undisclosed podcast, a series that...
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Celebrating the Iconic Suspense of Lois DuncanI still own three of Lois Duncan’s books. Growing up, I read so many, but these are the three I have left: Daughters of Eve , Stranger with My...
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My First Thriller: Jeneva Rose Is in Her Own WorldJeneva Rose is a whirlwind. When the publishing world didn’t work for her, she created her own. Like most aspiring authors, she first...
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Some Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Royal House of WindsorOne of the joys of writing historical fiction as opposed to non-fiction is that the author can take a well-reasoned conspiracy theory and run...
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The Girl and the Faun: Eden Phillpotts, His Crime Fiction and His Strange Relationship with His Daughter Adelaide“No biography or autobiography is true, because no one in his senses tells the truth about himself….Whoever wants to know me can find me in my...
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Yasmin Angoe on Morally Gray Action Thrillers and the Heroes Nena Knight Can SparI’ve thought long and hard about this particular topic—characters, or heroes that Nena Knight, elite Ghanaian assassin from my Nena Knight...
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The Gilded Age: On Invention and Excess“We don’t have a choice in the matter, Mr. McAllistar, we must go where history takes us.” In the HBO Gilded Age series, these were Bertha...
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The Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of Fall 2023Even if the temperatures are still high, the start of the school year and the first wave of Christmas promotional gift guide emails have combined...
